198: Holy Food (w/Christina Ward)
Does God have a recipe? That’s the first line of the blurb of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat: An American History by independent food historian, Christi...
21 Mar 20241h 6min
Bonus Sample: Ketamine Soul Mates
Dolphins, drugs, new age music. Isolation tanks as a portal into other dimensions. True love and fake aliens. Julian shares a personal love story from the nineties that intersects with the work of pro...
18 Mar 20245min
Brief: RFK Jr Hijacks the “Crisis in Masculinity” (w/Natalia Petrzela)
Masculinity, in all its wounded and preening anxiety, is the perennial currency of American populism. America’s foremost public historian on fitness and education, Natalia Petrzela, returns to the pod...
16 Mar 202431min
197: Psychic Surgery (feat Brad Abrahams)
The “healer” mutters prayers, flutters his hands over the patient’s belly, then rubs his fingers close to her navel. A stream of what looks like blood shoots out from between his fingers. After a few ...
14 Mar 20241h 7min
Bonus Sample: How to Stamp Out Racists (and more)
At what point do you tune someone out and no longer consider them worth considering? Is their entire catalog of thought defined by one encounter you don’t like? Multiple encounters? If you disagree wi...
11 Mar 20246min
Brief: The God Pivot: Rogan, Brand, & Huberman
Being a chaos agent is exhausting. The internet never ends. It’s so abstract, groundless. At some point, all of your content seems stale and redundant. All the conspiracy theories, outrage farming, an...
9 Mar 202435min
196: Julian Goes to the New Age Expo!
For 22 years, astrologers, channelers, and UFO enthusiasts have run booths next to crystal healers, purveyors of esoteric books and pseudoscience products, and paranormal enthusiasts at Los Angeles’s ...
7 Mar 20241h 15min
Bonus Sample: “There Are Worse Things Than Dying”
This is a newly favorite mantra that RFK Jr is using on the presidential stump. The subtext, uttered in the shadow of a pandemic that this guy did what he could to minimize and bypass, carries a lot ...
4 Mar 20245min
